Re: Compiling Emacs from source for hacking on it

[Po Lu]

Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> I have recently (shallow) cloned Emacs source code.  I have compiled it
> by doing the following:
>
> $ mkdir build
> $ cd build
> $ ../configure --without-x --without-gnutls --without-modules \
>     --without-sqlite3 --without-pop --without-mailutils --without-sound
> $ make
>
> If I understand correctly, running ./src/emacs should start the newly
> compiled Emacs.  But it says that with-memoizaton function definition is
> void, even with an empty init file (actually I commented out the whole
> file).  ./src/temacs works, but says function-documention is undefined
> at runtime.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

I think out of tree builds never really worked in Emacs.

If you're going to hack on Emacs, you should probably configure with
checking as well.